The Florida Senate

¹504.33  Inspection, sampling, analysis, and enforcement.--For the purpose of determining if a food labeled as organically grown was certified by a licensed certifying agent and was produced, transported, distributed, processed, and packaged without the use of synthetic pesticides, synthetically compounded fertilizers, synthetic growth hormones, or artificial radiation and in compliance with the rules adopted under this part, representatives of the department shall have free access at all reasonable hours to any field, storage building, warehouse, processing establishment, retail store, or vehicle where organic food is produced, packaged, processed, stored, transported, or offered for sale. The department may collect, analyze, or have analyzed such samples as may be necessary for enforcement. The department or its agents may examine, at the place or places of business of the applicant for certification or the certifying agent, the ledgers, books of accounts, memoranda, and other documents which relate to the foods involved, and may take testimony thereon under oath.

History.--ss. 1, 6, ch. 90-322; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 17, ch. 2001-279.

¹Note.--Repealed December 31, 2002, by s. 17, ch. 2001-279.